# Can Kibana 6 be used with Elastic 5.6.2?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-kibana-6-be-used-with-elastic-5-6-2/109051>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [November 24, 2017, 3:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-kibana-6-be-used-with-elastic-5-6-2/109051 "2017-11-24T15:50:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![javadevmtl](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/javadevmtl/32/45613_2.png) [@javadevmtl](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/javadevmtl)\
**Post date:** [November 24, 2017, 3:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-kibana-6-be-used-with-elastic-5-6-2/109051/1 "2017-11-24T15:50:46Z")

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Hi I would like to try the Kibana 6 features... Can I use it with Elastic 5.6.2 provided I create a .kibana6 index and set kibana.index=.kibana6?

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**Author:** ![javadevmtl](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/javadevmtl/32/45613_2.png) [@javadevmtl](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/javadevmtl)\
**Post date:** [November 24, 2017, 3:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-kibana-6-be-used-with-elastic-5-6-2/109051/2 "2017-11-24T15:54:41Z")

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Right in the logs: This version of Kibana requires Elasticsearch v6.0.0 on all nodes. I found the following incompatible nodes in your cluster: v5.6.2

Lol

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**Author:** ![tylersmalley](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tylersmalley/32/8833_2.png) [@tylersmalley](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tylersmalley)\
**Post date:** [November 28, 2017, 1:44am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-kibana-6-be-used-with-elastic-5-6-2/109051/3 "2017-11-28T01:44:42Z")

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That is correct, Kibana 6 requires Elasticsearch 6.0 on all nodes.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [December 26, 2017, 1:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-kibana-6-be-used-with-elastic-5-6-2/109051/4 "2017-12-26T01:45:21Z")

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